The University of Iowa is celebrating a milestone in February—its 170th birthday. What do you love about being a Hawkeye? It can be a person, place, or memory during your time on campus. Starting Feb. 1, you can tell us on social media using the hashtag #iloveUIOWA.

Hong Kong University students are working with UI students as part of the Virtual International Project Team program, a year-long design challenge that prepares students to work across borders. Long-standing partner Aix-Marseille University in France will continue to participate.

Social media has become an increasingly powerful tool for businesses to build their brands, and a University of Iowa researcher is studying how some use “textual paralanguage” to do it well *high five* while others do it Just. Plain. Bad.

The Cubs Trophy Tour, presented by State Farm, is coming to the University of Iowa, giving fans the opportunity to see and take photos with the 2016 World Series Trophy. The trophy will be at the Iowa Memorial Union’s Second Floor Ballroom from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30.

UI President Bruce Harreld has named Kenneth G. Brown, professor and associate dean of undergraduate programs at the Tippie College of Business, and Laura McLeran, senior adviser to the president and associate vice president for external relations, to co-chair the search to replace Tom Rocklin, vice president for student life.

Adam Robinson, executive director of the University of Iowa’s Rape Victim Advocacy Program, sits down with “Iowa Now” to talk about RVAP’s objective, its new team members, and its plans for the future.

The goal of the OneIT End User Support project is to make end-user support more efficient by using the new shared-service model while maintaining or improving the quality of service for customers. Read on to find out how the OneIT EUS project has helped University Housing and Dining.

Deone Pedersen loves to travel, and oftentimes an upcoming trip would spark a fitness goal for her, but it was a recent visit to Croatia that truly awakened Pedersen’s inner walker. The longtime liveWELL participant discusses the benefits she’s seen from her walking routine.

Gregory Carmichael, Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, will deliver the 34th annual UI Presidential Lecture “What Goes Around, Comes Around: The Global Reach of Air Pollution” on Sunday, Feb. 19. “Iowa Now” recently sat down with Carmichael to talk about his work.

UI Breakers, a University of Iowa student organization dedicated to breakdancing and hip-hop culture, creates camaraderie among its members—even as they “battle” against one another—and boosts their confidence in the process.

University of Iowa researchers have found a protein that regulates how chromosomes pair up and pass genetic information. FDK-6 dictates the speed at which maternal and paternal chromosome strands move and join in roundworms. The findings were published online this month in “The Journal of Cell Biology.”

UI President Bruce Harreld addresses the recently announced reduction in state funding and asks the campus community for its support.